Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Performance Optimisation
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.66% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 - £350

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

Performance Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 131 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 84.87% 78.92% 82.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 55 75
10th Percentile £134 £250 £160
25th Percentile £175 £316 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £591
90th Percentile £691 £642 £664
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £444 £475
% change year-on-year -5.41% -6.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 12
10th Percentile £16.13 - £15.50
25th Percentile £16.59 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.67 £22.89 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% +14.43% +18.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 £43.55 £35.06
90th Percentile - £50.00 £54.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derby - 1 £475 - 3
Performance Optimisation
East Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Monorepo
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript